Method for provisioning a container with food

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11790378-B2
Application number	US-202218069488-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2022
Priority date	Dec 18, 2017
Publication date	Oct 17, 2023
Grant date	Oct 17, 2023

Abstract

Method for providing a container with food, the method comprising: providing a container for infant formula food, adding the food, sealing the container with a gas-tight membrane seal, adding an inner scannable code on the gas-tight membrane seal, closing the container with a tamper-proof closure means, so that the inner scannable code is not scannable without breaking a part of the tamper-proof closure means, and storing the inner scannable code in a database.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for providing a container with food, the method comprising:
providing a container for infant formula food,
adding the food,
sealing the container with a gas-tight membrane seal,
adding an inner scannable code on the gas-tight membrane seal, wherein adding the inner scannable code comprises marking the gas-tight membrane seal with a laser marked visible code,
closing the container with a lid comprising a tamper-proof closure means, so that the inner scannable code is not scannable without breaking a part of the tamper-proof closure means, and
storing the inner scannable code in a database.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising
performing a quality check of the container, and
only storing the inner scannable code in the database on the condition that the container passes the quality check.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
providing an outer scannable code to the container, and
associating the inner scannable code with the outer scannable code in the database.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein adding the outer scannable code comprises marking the part of the container with a laser marked visible code.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inner scannable code is added on the gas-tight membrane seal before the gas-tight membrane seal is placed in the container.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
providing the container with a human-invisible code, and
storing the inner scannable code in association with the human-invisible code in a further database.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
providing an outer scannable code to the container,
reading the human-invisible code on the container,
retrieving the inner scannable code associated with the human-invisible code from the further database, and
associating the inner scannable code with the outer scannable code in the database.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
storing the outer scannable code in association with the human-invisible code in the further database,
when the outer scannable code is not sufficiently readable, reading the human-invisible code on the container, and retrieving the outer scannable code associated with the human-invisible code.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inner scannable code and/or the outer scannable code is a QR code.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the gas-tight membrane seal comprises a tear strip and a pull tab configured to tear the tear strip along a tear path and to leave a part of the membrane seal in the container.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inner scannable code is added on the side of the gas-tight membrane seal facing the content of the container.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the inner scannable code is added on the side of the gas-tight membrane seal facing away from the content of the container.

Assignees

• Nutricia Nv

Inventors

• Fischbach Elmar Martin

Classifications

• G06Q30/0185 Primary

  Product, service or business identity fraud · CPC title

• B65B1/04

  Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles · CPC title

• B65B7/2842

  Securing closures on containers (in general B65B51/00) · CPC title

• B65B61/26

  for marking or coding completed packages · CPC title

• B65D43/16

  hinged for upward or downward movement · CPC title